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Believe

verb

(past & past part. believed; pres. part. believing)

Accept as true; take to be true. "We didn't believe his stories from the War" , "She believes in spirits" Antonym: disbelieve.

Judge or regard; look upon; judge. Synonyms: conceive, consider, think. "I believe her to be very smart" , "I think that he is her boyfriend" , "The racist conceives such people to be inferior"

Be confident about something. Synonym: trust.

Follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer.

Credit with veracity. "Should we believe a publication like the National Enquirer?"

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— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 7 (of 12) • G. Maspero

... looking at the landscape—the long, long plain that the French peasant cultivates unceasingly. Out of that long plain came all the money that was lost in Panama, and all the money invested in Russian bonds—fine milliards came out of the French peasants' stockings. We passed through La Beauce. I believe it was there that Zola went to study the French peasant before he wrote "La Terre." Huysmans, with that benevolent malice so characteristic of him, used to say that Zola's investigation was limited to going out once for a drive in a carriage with Madame Zola. The primitive man that had risen ...

— Memoirs of My Dead Life • George Moore

... have made this plain to you; but what would be plain to us would not be plain to children, and still less to mankind in its infancy five thousand or fifty thousand years ago. I have especially endeavoured to discover what led these men of old, in many respects so uncultivated, to believe in something beyond, invisible, superhuman, supernatural. We can see from their language and from the oldest monuments of their religion that they early observed that something happened in the world. The world ...

— The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour • Friedrich Max Mueller

... without baptism, and several have wisely observed that the ruin of Christian Wechel and his labours fell out as a punishment for his presses and characters being employed in such an infamous work." However, there is reason to believe that the book was not so "impious," expressing only the pious hope that the souls of such infants might not be lost, and also that no great "curse" fell upon the printer, and that his poverty was apocryphal. At any rate, his son Andrew was a very flourishing printer; ...

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